I'm having some troubles with this particular spot and I'd like to discuss it:
Imagine this situation, typical 9max turbo tournament, you're 6-7 handed
Blinds 100/200
UTG: 1500
UTG+1: 2000
CO: 1750
BU: 2000
HERO (SB): 2700
BB: 3000
Hero holecards: 66
I think we have 5 lines we can take preflop:
- raise/fold
- raise/call
- limp/fold
- limp/shove
- shove
If you raise pre the decision to call or fold to a shove is "trivial" icm so I don't really want to go into that.
Limp/shoving is also "trivial" because it's a really specific play that you can only use vs specific players imo.
I think openshoving is +$EV vs almost everyone and might be the prefered way to play the hand vs the typical loose fish. Raising or limp/stabbing isn't easy if your opponent doesn't know where his fold button is. Shoving is a pretty clean and simple way to play the hand.
I rarely raise this pre (say to like 450-500). It might be the best line vs robot multitablers who are gonna fold a huge part of their range here, but it might get tough vs good adapting regulars. We can't really call here if a good regular shoves over our raise, and it's hard to estimate his resteal range.
Vs fish raising pre get's you into a whole other situation: they are gonna call too often pre. C-betting is expensive and inefective vs this type of player imo.
I think limp/stabbing is a good line to take here vs a lot of opponents.
So I'm basicly wondering, what is the best way to play this hand vs:
- loose fish
- robot multitablers
- "average" fish
- good regulars
- ...
